After discussing with Sima Yi, Cao Hong couldn't help but feel very happy, and immediately ordered to go down, and gave such and such instructions to the generals under his command, and instructed them to do things strictly, and there must be no problems, otherwise they will be severely punished.

Those generals naturally knew that the matter was important, but they did not dare to slack off, and strictly followed Cao Ren's instructions, or coercion, or inducement, and really made the vast majority of the people in the city agree to cooperate, so, just a day later, these generals all replied to Cao Hong, they had all arranged properly, and the men in the city agreed to their requests for the sake of their wives and children, whose freedom was restricted, and agreed to be sergeants, and at the same time allowed the sergeants to pretend to be ordinary people in their homes, but they asked the generals to agree, They must not have ill intentions towards their families and demand payment as agreed.

When Cao Hong heard this, he naturally agreed, and ordered all the soldiers in Daocheng to kill all those who took a thing from the people and insulted women on the spot.

As for the remuneration raised by the people, Cao Hong was angry, and his anger was mainly focused on the subordinate generals Liang Xihe Zhao, because relatively speaking, the price offered by these two generals to the people was much higher than that of other generals.

I saw Cao Hong scolding: "You two guys, squandering public funds arbitrarily and buying people's hearts, it's really hateful, if it weren't for the fact that on the occasion of today's employment, Ben Jiang would have beheaded you, but the death penalty can be avoided, and the living sin is unforgivable. ”

Although the second general expressed dissatisfaction with Cao Hong, he did not dare to say much because all his family members were pinched in his account. I had to leave the tent with the wolf bèi.

At this moment, suddenly there was an earth-shattering sound of war drums outside the city, Cao Hong was shocked when he heard the sound, and he knew that Liu Qi led the army to attack the city, and immediately ordered the army to meet the enemy as originally planned.

Cao Hong knew that Liu Qi's mysterious siege methods would only be used at night in order to keep it secret. There is no need to worry about the siege during the day. So Cao Hong only sent half of the sergeants to defend the city.

But even so, after a day of fierce attack, the entire Yangzhai City was still firmly in Cao Hong's hands.

It was soon dark, and under normal circumstances, the soldiers who had been tired for a day should go back to the camp to rest, but Cao Hong did not dare to take it lightly, because he knew that the most tense moment was coming.

So Cao Hong ordered the half of the sergeants who had been well rested during the day to guard the city, and closely watched the movements under the city. In any case, it is necessary to find out what means the enemy used to collapse the city gate at once.

These soldiers opened their eyes wide and stared at the city for a moment, but the night passed, and nothing happened in the city!

After listening to the report of the soldiers defending the city, Cao Hong secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but at the same time he was a little disappointed, because it meant that he lost a chance to make meritorious contributions.

"Generals, don't worry, there are always opportunities." Sima Yi saw Cao Hong's look of loss. Hurriedly persuaded. But he secretly despised it in his heart, because even if he wanted to make meritorious contributions. You can't do it at the cost of the city being destroyed, how can such a lord who cares about the lives of his soldiers and careless about the lives of his soldiers achieve great things?

"Sure enough, he is a simple-minded, reckless man who is eager for quick success, a fool like this is really too far behind Cao Zixiao, if it weren't for me Sima Yi to take advantage of this gang. I guess you've abandoned the city and fled. ”

Sima Yi shook his head secretly, and said in his heart that he was talented, Cao Cao didn't let himself lead his troops to fight alone, but let such a fool share his own credit, it seems that he trusts the most in his heart. is still the son of his Cao family and Xiahou family.

Although he knew that this was a very natural thing, Sima Yi still felt a little uncomfortable, and he tried his best to plan for him, but as a result, most of the credit was easily taken up by this idiot, which was really unwilling.

However, Sima Yi knew that now was not the time to express dissatisfaction, the King of Wei naturally knew that Cao Hong's two blows, and now that the strong enemy was pressing the realm, as long as he used his tricks to worship Liu Qi, the King of Wei would definitely know his role in it, and he would definitely not forget the merits he had made, as long as his merits were high enough to arouse the trust of the King of Wei instead of suspicion, he would definitely have the opportunity to put aside these fools and lead the troops to fight alone.

When Cao Hong had just sent the soldiers who had not rested all night to rest, he suddenly heard the sound of war drums, and his heart jumped, because he knew that a new day was coming, and the Chu army, which had rested all night, began to attack the city again.

This time, the defenders of the city were still half of the sergeants during the day yesterday, and now even Sima Yi had no choice, because the threat of the enemy army at night was greater than during the day, and enough manpower must be allocated to deal with the situation, and naturally did not dare to take it lightly during the day, although the enemy army seemed to be attacking the city during the day, but the void could be turned into reality at any time.

This day has passed, and the result is still not as Sima Yi expected, the siege of the Chu army can only be regarded as a feint at best, and they still firmly control the entire city.

It is precisely because of the feints during the day that they are more cautious at night.

But the night passed peacefully.

Cao Hong was naturally even more disappointed, this time even Sima Yi was a little breathless, but Sima Yi was calm after all, he knew that the change would definitely happen soon, and it would happen when they were most likely to relax, so Yan sù exhorted Cao Hong to cheer up and concentrate on coping.

What Sima Yi and Cao Hong didn't know was that at this time, Liu Qi and the generals were in full swing in the big tent to formulate a plan to attack the city.

"Hehe, if this king's prediction is correct, the reason why Sima Yi sent so many soldiers to defend the city at night must be to explore the secret of our gunpowder siege, but he really underestimates us, how can a little Yang Zhai use such a powerful weapon as gunpowder? As long as the wheeled catapult and the perfect version of the repeater are enough, today we are still attacking the city as usual, but the catapult and the repeater are put into use together, and we must take Yangzhai in one go, and only half of the sergeants in Sima Yi's army defend the city, this time see how he is undefeated? ”

"No." The generals listened to Liu Qi's words, bowed down and agreed, and then made preparations for the siege of the city.

At dawn, with the sound of siege drums, I saw that the soldiers of the Chu army quickly came to the city through the moat, and surrounded the city from the east, west and south, each side formed a phalanx, and the outermost layer of the phalanx was Liu Qi's 20,000 personal soldiers, whose main responsibility was to prevent the enemy from opening the city gate and launching an attack on the siege troops.

After the pro-soldiers are the 20,000 Danyang soldiers with crossbows, and after the Danyang soldiers are Liu Qi's latest 8,000 Flying Stone Army, which has been formed for less than two years, but is well-trained.

This time, Liu Qi's purpose itself was to attack the city, and at the same time, in order to deter the enemy and make them courageous, there was no need to kill them all, so this time he adopted the strategy of "encircling three and missing one", the purpose was naturally to minimize the resistance of the enemy, and at the same time, it was also to let those deserters flee back to Luoyang, causing panic among the soldiers who were originally stationed in Luoyang.

Hearing only an order, the crossbowmen first fired a powerful round of crossbow arrows to suppress the defenders at the head of the city, and then the outermost Flying Stone Army methodically controlled the catapults and launched a fierce attack on the city.

The huge stones hit the city wall violently like a torrential rain, and many Wei troops were smashed into meat sauce by the flying stones before they had time to dodge, even if they were not hit, the surrounding soldiers were also terrified, and they had already forgotten to resist, and hid under the female wall in panic to prevent the boulders from coming.

Although Cao Hong repaired and strengthened the city defense during the period of Cao Hong's garrison in Yangzhai, and prepared all kinds of city defense equipment, but he could not afford to destroy so many large stones in turn, especially the perverted siege equipment of the rotary catapult, each car had fifty or sixty stones in the non-stop launch, and when they threw all the stones out, the time had passed an hour, at this time the city wall was already dilapidated, and the city gate building had already been smashed to pieces. Many parts of the city wall were smashed into large craters, and in other places the city wall was blown down by boulders.

"I really didn't expect this Liu Qi to have such means to create such a powerful catapult, it seems that he can break through Yangzhai City without the means of 'thunder and fire from the sky'." Sima Yi listened to the reports of the soldiers, and after saying a few words softly, he said to Cao Hong: "Prepare to withdraw the troops, the secret of 'thunder and fire from the sky, we will not see it this time." However, knowing that the enemy army has such a powerful catapult, this is also a gain for us, hehe, next time, I will definitely not let them break the city so easily. ”

When Cao Hong heard this, he nodded hurriedly, and according to the plan arranged in advance, all the men in the city were wearing Cao Jun's equipment and gathered at the gate of the north city, ready to retreat according to the original plan.

At the same time, most of the troops in the city, except for a few who were still arranged to hold on to the city, all the others took refuge in the houses, took off their armor, hid their weapons, and disguised themselves as civilians.

At this moment, Liu Qi's 20,000 personal soldiers, Lü Meng's 30,000 Danyang soldiers, and Meng Huo's and Shamoke's 20,000 Wudangfei troops, a total of 70,000 troops, climbed up from the ruined city wall from the east, south, and west directions, and launched a fierce siege battle with the enemy.

The soldiers who held on to the city surrendered without any resistance, so Liu Qi captured Yangzhai lightly, but when Liu Qi stood on the north city tower and raised his clairvoyance to look at the fleeing Cao Wei defeated army, a thoughtful look suddenly appeared on his face. (To be continued......)